# Hydrangea Arborescens

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Hydrang. is a remedy for gravel, profuse deposit of white amorphous salts in urine. Kidney 
stones, kidney colic, bloody urine. It appears to act strongly on the neck of the bladder and on the ureters. 
Gout and rheumatism. Oppression of the chest. Pain in lumbar region. Dizziness.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Nervous and worried.
- Violent attacks of anger.
- Outbursts of anger due to pains.
- Nervous and worried.
- Violent attacks of anger.
- Outbursts of anger due to pains.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Colic.
- Abdominal symptoms and enlarged prostate .Sharp pain in loins, especially left side.
- Bladder - Bladder catarrh, stones.
- Urinary in continence.
- Frequent urination.
- Spasmodic stricture.
- Cystitis.
- Burning in urethra and frequent desire, but hard to start.
- Stitching pain during urination.
- Great thirst with abdominal symptoms.

### Urinary & Genital
- Prostate hypertrophy.
- Enlarged prostate (Ferr-pic., Sabal.).
- Kidneys - Pyelitis.
- Nephritis.
- Calculus in the ureter with prostate enlargement.
- Kidney stones, kidney colic.
- Sore kidneys.
- Pain in left kidney, ureter.
- Radiating pains (Berb.).
- Urine - Profuse deposit of white amorphous salts.
- Gravel deposits.
- Yellow sand.
- Bloody urine.
- Heavy deposit 
of mucus.
- COMMENTS - Dr.
- Nottingham of Lansing said that in physiological doses it produces giddiness, oppression 
of the chest and acts as a cathartic, diuretic, sialogogue and narcotic.
- Nottingham used it with brilliant results in the case of Mr.
- B., 71, tall, slender, dark.
- He was exceedingly irritable 
and frequently subject to violent paroxysms of anger.
- For many years he had been accustomed to make the 
most reckless use of drugs and was always requesting his homeopathic doctor to give him “something 
stronger.
- ” 
For eight years he had suffered from bladder sphincter irritation with dribbling of urine, severe spasms of 
prostate, kidney catarrh, yellow sand in urine and even small stones.
- After persistent use of the best indicated 
remedies with no effect, the fluid extract of Hydrangea was given, a teaspoonful every three or four hours.
- The 
 
 
symptoms disappeared in a very short time.
- Cooper has also used this remedy (which, he says is the thirstiest plant known) with good effect in diabetes in 
cases presenting great thirst with abdominal symptoms and in enlarged prostate.
- Hansen added that it is particularly useful for profuse deposits of white amorphous salts in the urine.
- Hydrang.
- has arrested the tendency to formation of stones, relieves distress from kidney stones with soreness 
over region of kidneys and bloody urine.